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Len posted:Slightly related to this conversation. I downloaded the anti-union orientation video and uploaded it to YouTube for your viewing pleasure. https://youtu.be/_Gim8_5D2fA should be visible? I set it to only those with the link can see and gave it a false name so hopefully it doesn't get pulled. Greetings fellow Is anyone seriously expected to buy that? That is insane.
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But weren't you listening? Unions get the majority of their funds from union dues which THEY TAKE DIRECTLY OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK BEFORE YOU EVER SEE THE MONEY!!! Without a union my performance is ALL that matters for my job, but with a union I give up the control of my career and hand that control to the union fatcats! They'd never let me rise from being some loading dock worker to becoming the CEO!!!
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I wasn't listening.
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Tiggum posted:Greetings fellow If you believed "Walmart jobs are good jobs" you'll believe anything. Sentient Data posted:But weren't you listening? Unions get the majority of their funds from union dues which THEY TAKE DIRECTLY OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK BEFORE YOU EVER SEE THE MONEY!!! JUST LIKE TAXES!
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Tiggum posted:Is anyone seriously expected to buy that? That is insane. First of all: yes, people absolutely buy that poo poo. I have a friend who is rabidly anti-union. The teachers union ruined our schools. Every other union is ruining whatever industry they are in. Lazy workers can't be fired, the unions are driving everyone out of business, unions suck money out of both the workers and the business owners and give nothing back, if the unions went away, the businesses would pay better wages because of... spite, maybe? It's not clear. He is the son of a lifetime union electrician. When his father was injured on the job, the union went to bat for the father with the company, and changed their own by-laws to see that he was taken care of. For some reason, the only part of the story he seems to remember is, "They weren't even going to help him! They had to change the rules to take care of him." Well, yeah, but they did so. After his father died, he didn't really have to work for years because he was collecting a death benefit from his father's union. Recently, while complaining about lovely treatment at his current place of employment, he said: "Well, it's not like I have a union." People not only buy that poo poo, they will go through amazing mental contortions in order to believe it. Secondly, it doesn't matter whether anyone believes the propaganda, because those videos are at least as much about setting tone as they are about swaying opinions. "We do not approve of unions. Around here, unions are considered bad, so don't go around acting like you like them. We cut your paychecks, and don't you forget that we don't like unions."
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Tiggum posted:Is anyone seriously expected to buy that? That is insane. Most of America.
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The only thing as funny as the anti-union video is the fake safety story that each store manager has to have to about how someone they know DIED or was DISFIGURED because they just weren't careful! Work safe! We don't want to be sued! e: I think this goes for all major chain retail stores though
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Is it just me, or has anyone else seen any of those Scientology videos and noticed some similarities between those and the Walmart video? It's got a really creepy cult propaganda vibe to it. 
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A big part of it is that it's 90% single actors against greenscreens (presumably so they can swap out backgrounds to keep current on the cheap) as opposed to the old video which had union organizers literally stalking people through the clothes sections. Aside from that, it's the usual marketing speak that explains in extremely vague terms how the glorious leader will improve your life and that you should never fall for the tricks of the evil unbelievers
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om nom nom posted:I purchase food for my restaurant, with produce if it comes in gross you have refuse it right away, maybe if you did accept it you can call your rep within a couple of hours. Mis orders are the same, but your rep will call you and break your balls if you hosed up and not them . But I've also never made an 18,000 or 18 pallet mistake. It was before when I worked there but supposedly when the produce truck once had a live cat on it. They called the warehouse about it and they were glad to find out where their cat went. Apparently it wandered in one day and they just started taking care of it. While I worked there we actually had a crate of limes arrive with a dead bird in it. I have a picture I'll try to find and post.
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Len posted:It was before when I worked there but supposedly when the produce truck once had a live cat on it. They called the warehouse about it and they were glad to find out where their cat went. Apparently it wandered in one day and they just started taking care of it. My father worked in the county health department for over 30 years, acting as their head for like, 20. Stories like this make the part of me that comes from him wince so hard.
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Choco1980 posted:My father worked in the county health department for over 30 years, acting as their head for like, 20. Stories like this make the part of me that comes from him wince so hard.  Edit: Hey I found a picture of this ToxicSlurpee posted:Last I worked there any food that is to be thrown out goes into big composting dumpsters the contents of which are sold to a company that buys up food waste and turns it into fertilizer or something. It gets stored (at room temperature, of course) in various boxes, buckets, and containers around the place which end up smelling pretty drat bad very quickly. So not only are hungry people forced to throw perfectly good food away but they have to stand there and watch it go bad while dealing with the awful smell that food waste tends to generate. I'm very serious when I say "literally cartoon villain." 
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Mexican Deathgasm posted:Why don't grocery stores just get a couple of industrial sized juicers, blend up bad or leftover produce and sell them as cheapish smoothies? Smoothies are huge now, they would make a killing.
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Mexican Deathgasm posted:Why don't grocery stores just get a couple of industrial sized juicers, blend up bad or leftover produce and sell them as cheapish smoothies? Smoothies are huge now, they would make a killing. My first job was at a smoothie shop and SOP was that when we got crates of fresh bananas in, we set them on top of a shelf unit and leave them there for a few weeks. As we get new bananas in, the older ones come down a shelf. The ones coming off the bottom get processed. They were pitch black by that point and you had to sit in the back squeezing the mushy nanner guts into plastic tubs. If the wheat germ and acai berry crowd that frequented the place saw those bananas before we processed them they'd freak, I'm sure. I'm told by a former employee that most grocery stores around here have people in the back that chop up the unpretty fruit they have to throw out and sell it in wrapped flats or quart tubs as pre-sliced convenience fruit. I imagine if Wal-mart doesn't do this it's because they're just too goddamn big or it wouldn't be worth the piss wage they'd have to pay the fruit slicers.
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cobalt impurity posted:I'm told by a former employee that most grocery stores around here have people in the back that chop up the unpretty fruit they have to throw out and sell it in wrapped flats or quart tubs as pre-sliced convenience fruit. This definitely happens. I used to do it at the local price-premium supermarket. Pineapple too green to sell as-is? Slice the fucker and pack it up. Celery going out-of-date tomorrow? Slice the fuckers and pack them up. Cantaloupe too bruised to put on the shelf? etc. #lifehack: Any fruit tray you get at a supermarket that isn't made-to-order is likely made with the unsellable fruit. If you want one, have them whip one up while you do the rest of your shopping. Walla!
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Ask for your fries with no salt.
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Decrepus posted:Ask for your fries with no fries. Delicious grease salt soup!
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Decrepus posted:Ask for your fries with no salt. I worked at McDonald's when I was younger and had more patience for bullshit, and people that do this are the worst. If you have some reason you can't have salt then yes, go for it. If you're just doing it to guarantee you get fresh fries, gently caress you.
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Kaethela posted:I worked at McDonald's when I was younger and had more patience for bullshit, and people that do this are the worst. If you have some reason you can't have salt then yes, go for it. If you're just doing it to guarantee you get fresh fries, gently caress you. Hmm maybe you should've gone to the self-respect shop to buy enough self-respect to not work at a place that sells old fries 
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Kaethela posted:I worked at McDonald's when I was younger and had more patience for bullshit, and people that do this are the worst. If you have some reason you can't have salt then yes, go for it. If you're just doing it to guarantee you get fresh fries, gently caress you. Is there even a noticeable difference? Doesn't matter how fresh the fries are or are not it's still the same box of McMediocrity.
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Fresh fries taste better, but gently caress anyone that orders them regardless. Mcdonalds is a thankless, soul-crushing hell-job and the poor unfortunates stuck working there don't earn nearly enough to put up with their poo poo.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Fresh fries taste better, but gently caress anyone that orders them regardless. Mcdonalds is a thankless, soul-crushing hell-job and the poor unfortunates stuck working there don't earn nearly enough to put up with their poo poo. Life hack: embrace socialism and unionize properly.
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 If you get hungry when drunk, don't try to eat your handbag.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Life hack: embrace socialism and unionize properly. Lifehack: Eat the rich, but exercise briskly afterwards.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Lifehack: Eat the rich, but exercise briskly afterwards. 
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Screaming Idiot posted:Lifehack: Eat the rich, but exercise briskly afterwards.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Fresh fries taste better, but gently caress anyone that orders them regardless. Mcdonalds is a thankless, soul-crushing hell-job and the poor unfortunates stuck working there don't earn nearly enough to put up with their poo poo. I've always liked the people that would treat you like you're subhuman scum and a gibbering retard just because you work at a McDonalds. So sorry I was 16 and working at one of the few places that hires teenagers. loving dicks. At least I eventually got corralled to the back drive through window for telling a customer that she wouldn't have been waiting forever if she hadn't ordered $40 worth if fresh food. The loving grilled chicken takes 8 minutes to cook.
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netally posted:
Handbags are filthy fuckers. Don't eat handbags. Them skanks'll sit them down right on the moldy piss floor of the ladies powder-room and then plop them directly onto the countertop next to the cauliflower and what have you - or worse - manhandle them manually with their loving hands and then stick their moldy pissy handbag fingers right into the beer nuts loving filthy I tell you. No joke. #Lifehack
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Walmart is basically trying to be a cartoon villain at this point. Trying? Unless we're talking about them literally tying people to railroad tracks while twirling their comical handlebar moustache and cackling maniacally as the train bears down on their victim I think they've got the part nailed down.
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Fathis Munk posted:
This is so freaking old, but as a Starbucks employee I'm so glad they finally made it as expensive as a normal iced tea so stupid Pinterest people won't buy it anymore. Starbucks 'life hacks' in general are so goddamn stupid. ('Secret menu' stuff included.)  
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KillerEggplant posted:Gas station coffee is pretty reliably not awful when it's a station on a decently well traveled road. Highway gas stations serve truckers, so it's gotta be decent if not good. Gas stations in the middle of loving nowhere are questionable at best, though. Yeah, never get coffee at a convenience store that doesn't have diesel pumps. OctoberBlues posted:Every place I've ever heard about has someone from HR walk you to your desk when you get fired and they watch you pack your stuff up before walking you out the door. quote:So the lifehack is to begin stealing stuff before you get fired. axolotl farmer posted:Sales hack: put bananas with spots in bags with a recipe for banana bread printed on it and sell it for really cheap as 'ripe bananas'. Len posted:Produce surprisingly makes slightly above minimum wage. It's one of the higher entry positions. GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Ayy lmao it's somehow worse than the one I remember from the 90s Cat Hatter posted:I'm not trying to defend Walmart, but when they throw out produce do they get reimbursed by their supplier? I know if a retailer gets a manufacturer to buy back a broken widget, but the widget manufacturer doesn't consider it economically viable to ship the widget back, they'll just order it to be destroyed on site and its illegal to then sell the widget to a third party because then you'd be selling it to two people. Kaethela posted:I worked at McDonald's when I was younger and had more patience for bullshit, and people that do this are the worst. If you have some reason you can't have salt then yes, go for it. If you're just doing it to guarantee you get fresh fries, gently caress you. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 05:34 on May 20, 2015 |
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Delivery McGee posted:Yeah, my grocery store has a bag of bananas with black spots for a dollar. The "it's a crime to get stuff out of the Dumpster" is so you can't sue them when you get sick from eating stuff they threw out. In Australia stealing garbage is theft regardless of what it is or who you take it from, and I assume it works pretty much the same in America. Until it's collected, rubbish is the property and responsibility of the person throwing it out. After it's collected it belongs to the council. I don't think you can sue someone because you got sick from eating the rubbish you stole from them any more than you could sue someone because you got food poisoning after breaking into their house and eating something from the fridge. I think what you're thinking of is the thing where shops can't give expired products away because then they would be responsible for it. For example, if regulations say that food can only stay in a bain-marie for a certain amount of time and after that it can no longer be sold, then it can't be given away after that time either. If they let an employee take it that's the same as giving it away.
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Some grocery store in Canada decided to start selling "ugly" produce for cheaper and it made national loving news. The fact that we care so much about how our food looks on the shelf says a lot.
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Picnic Princess posted:Some grocery store in Canada decided to start selling "ugly" produce for cheaper and it made national loving news. I seem to recall recently that a chain in France started pushing the "ugly" produce as well and sales went up like 300%.
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Choco1980 posted:I seem to recall recently that a chain in France started pushing the "ugly" produce as well and sales went up like 300%. Wasn't that the one that took the "ugly" produce then just turned it into juice and told everybody that's what the juice was? I remember reading about a store that did that and it was kind of interesting. Ugly/bruised/slightly spoiled fruit can make perfectly fine juice so they just took it all, juiced it, and said "hey if you consume this stuff it reduces food waste!" and people were like "neat!"
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Wasn't that the one that took the "ugly" produce then just turned it into juice and told everybody that's what the juice was? I remember reading about a store that did that and it was kind of interesting. Ugly/bruised/slightly spoiled fruit can make perfectly fine juice so they just took it all, juiced it, and said "hey if you consume this stuff it reduces food waste!" and people were like "neat!" If they wait a bit longer and turned it into moonshine all they have to do is box it up and they'd make bank.
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Woolworths here in Australia are doing the ugly produce thing too, marketing it to kids as "the odd bunch".
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